I have found this plate in the cupboard - I am unsure about what these mean and if its actually worth anything. Any help is appreciated!!!
Those are Dutch silver marks, more information can be found here Dutch Hallmarks - Encyclopedia of Silver Marks, Hallmarks & Makers’ Marks. Please post an image of the whole item, as to value start at the melt weight and research similar item sales on ebay and the like.
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W - 1956?
Minerva head “C” - The Hague.
hallmarks - Gold, silver & watches - GZU-online
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It’s a simple plain plate that weighs between 182 - 184 grams ( how much do you think it will be worth?)
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Dear Monty:
To answer your question I84 grams of sterling .925 silver at a spot price of $US77.96 for silver is $US 426.60. A scrap merchant may pay you 60% of that which is $US255.96. This does not take into consideration any intrinsic value of the plate which I am presuming is sterling silver.
Ebay can help there. If you look at the sale prices of similar items then divide by two and deduct postage and Ebay charges and you had about enough left to pay you for your time dealing with it.
I have to ask; are you related to the Full Monty crowd or Monty Python’s lot? “Monty I” sort of implies there might be a “Monty 2” or 3 as well. Is this perhaps an entirely new clan or sept of Montys who are neither going to dance on stage dishabille while using strange Yorkshire accents or besiege hapless Scottish castles in pursuit of the holy grail?
If you are part of the holy grail Python lot I have to tell you I always thought that story line was a bit thin to found an entire Arthurian legend on, but that’s Cambridge for you. Much ado about nothing.
I think the best you can do for this otherwise somewhat pedestrian little oblong Netherlands dish is convince everybody that King Arthur’s round table wasn’t round at all but oblong and this is a faithful reproduction of a suitably-shaped dish his knights supped off at the said table while dreaming of rogering Guinevere and other princely and gallant undertakings. Bedside reading for Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor I suppose.
CRWW
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